Wednesday, June 25, 2008

This shitty campaign on the internet, to make out that FINAL CRISIS is some sort of artistic disaster, in order to make it into a stake to drive into Dan Didio's career as DC's head honcho, is annoying me. Look at these preview pages of issue two. They're sodding brilliant. Oh noes! Darkseid is possessing Terrible Turpin! How wrong, yet how... elegant. Who represented the resistance of Earth to Darkseid better than Turpin? What could better signify the hopelessness of Earth's cause now than this? Hey! Is that Kamandi?! What are they doing to Tawky Tawny?! You utter bastards! Barry Allen's return: again, from a storytelling point of view, so very elegant - he reappears out-running the Black Racer, DC's own very embodiment of death (and Kirby's barmiest notion). Basically, if you don't like these pages, you don't love comics anymore. Give 'em up.

But ignore the comments made by the chimps at the bottom. The denizens of Scans Daily can make Millarworlders look like Dorothy Parker having a lightsaber battle with Oscar Wilde on the twin moons of Winston Churchill.

I don't mind Turpin looking like Turpin, though I did always think that Bruce Timm thing of making Turpin look like Kirby was always rather sweet.

Part of me thinks that in another universe, this comic is being drawn by J.H. Williams III, and the Kirby characters look like they've been drawn by Kirby, amongst the rest of the cast, more realistically drawn, making them look even more strange and alien and fantastic.

The Story Of The Blues:

By day, I'm a mild-mannered librarian in a pokey one horse town, but by night I customise/butcher/torture vintage guitars while knocking back St. Emilion Grand Cru. Then blog about comics, movies, music, TV, and even occasionally books and librarianship. Yeah, I know: a broad remit.

Assorted mouthin' off from the kidult once deemed "best damn Northern Irish comics blogger" by some kind, deluded, soul. It's news, opinions, reviews, and sometimes even interviews in a thick Ulster accent. And if I say something offensively glib, it's just our bible-black sense of humour. It's really nothing personal, just get over it and move on.

Getting in tune with the straight and narrow

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